Dictionary entry
Squire
Pronunciation: /skwʌɪə/
Pronunciation
/skwʌɪə/
Myanmar Meaning
တောသူဌေး မြေပိုင်ရှင်။ သူရဲကောင်း၏ လက်ပါးစေတပည့်။ အမျိုးသမီးကို လိုက်ပါစောင့်ရှောက်သည်။
Definition
squire /'skwaÇǝ(r) / n ၁။ (in titles Squire ) (ေရွး) (အဂၤလန္တြင္) လူကံုထံ။ ေက်းလက္ေဒသ ေျမပိုင္ရွင္။ ေတာသူေဌး။ ၂။ ( Brit infml or joc ) (ေယာက်္ားအခ်င္းခ်င္းအၾကား ေဖာ္ေရြေသာအားျဖင့္ သံုးေသာ အာလုပ္စကား)။ သူေဌးမင္း။ လူႀကီးမင္း။ What can I get you, squire? ၃။ (ေရွး) သူရဲေကာင္းအရာသို႔ မေရာက္မီ သူရဲေကာင္းတစ္ဦးထံတြင္ လက္ေထာက္ျဖစ္ခဲ့သူ လူရြယ္။
Examples
- ‘Scott
- by contrast
- is very much the country squire
- down in town from his home in the Borders.’
- ‘The trustworthy parson and the trustworthy squire are the twin pillars of rural life.’
- ‘Striding out with his faithful hound at his heels
- he would be the picture of the country squire were it not for his somewhat bizarre attire - cut-off shorts
- a sleeveless T - shirt and a sailor's cap.’
- ‘Deference to the squire and the parson was often a façade
- masking constant challenges to authority by poaching and more explicit threats of rick-burning.’
- ‘Especially over-optimistic were those landowners who
- envying the political rights and responsibilities of the English squire
- sought to popularize in Russia the ideas of British liberalism.’
- ‘There was also a small English rising in Northumberland
- supported mostly by catholic and high Anglican squires who were bankrupt.’
- ‘The squire
- Sir John Boileau
- and the vicar
- the Reverend Mr Andrew
- were both highly literate men who didn't get on - and both kept diaries
- largely about each other.’
- ‘Ordinary gentlewomen
- daughters not of lords
- but of local knights and squires
- showed moreover the same sort of awareness of the dignity of their blood and arms as did great ladies like Dervorguilla of Galloway.’
- ‘Her father Sir Reginald Sheffield 8th Baronet
- squire of Normanby Park
- Lincolnshire
- was appointed a deputy lieutenant for what was then Humberside in 1985.’
- ‘The old 16 th-century Welsh squire - and crook - Sir John Wynn loved his ancestry.’
- ‘Nevertheless
- he was wealthy enough to build Vaucluse House
- still one of the best Georgian buildings in the country
- and live there
- as he said
- like a squire at home.’
- ‘Black portrays Roosevelt as a patrician country squire who harbored a strong social conscience and a prejudice against the new industrial rich.’
- ‘A Grade II-listed former windmill
- the Round House was built in 1790 by local squire Earl Bathurst
- who later became lord chancellor
- and was used as a windmill until the early 1830s.’
- ‘The rise of chamber knights and squires was a general phenomenon of the fourteenth century
- and was not confined to the well-known court of Richard II.’
- ‘The squires were talking earlier and it sounds like the Duke has set up a large bath house for the contestants and their parties off of the north field.’
- ‘He has long yearned the quiet life of a country squire in a little Cornish style farm in Sussex where he could raise bees.’
- ‘We know that he was born into a family of high standing in France and he describes himself as a squire
- certainly suggesting that his family were wealthy landowners.’
- ‘In the past
- stag hunting had been the preserve of the aristocracy and small-scale hare and fox hunting that of the country squires.’
- ‘Francis Edgeworth was the first of a line of four squires who lived at Cranalagh
- two miles north of Mastrim
- until Frank
- the fourth
- built his new house at what became Edgeworthstown.’
- ‘The story
- told by the aged steward Thady M'Quirk
- serves as the fictionalized memoir of his service of four successive squires on a remote Irish estate over a period of eighty years.’